The Politics of the Past in Early China

Sommario

Introduction; 1. Time out of joint: uses of the past from the Western Zhou to the early warring states; 2. A parenthetical past: deep history and anti-history in the late warring states; 3. Specter of the past: bureaucratic amnesia under the Rise of the Qin Empire; 4. The rehabilitation of antiquity in the early Han Empire; 5. Sima Qian's critical past; Epilogue.

Info autore

Vincent S. Leung is Associate Professor of Chinese history at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Riassunto

This is a study of the political uses of the past in early China. Engaging with a variety of historical materials, including inscriptional records, excavated manuscripts, and transmitted texts, it is a wide-ranging exploration of the fraught relationship between politics and historical imagination in ancient China.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vincent S. Leung, Vincent S. (Lingnan University Leung
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108443241
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44324-1
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Peso: 350 g
• Illustrazioni: Worked examples or Exercises
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; China, Antike, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, History of Ideas, Politik und Staat, Vorzeit, Frühgeschichte vor Christi Geburt, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, HISTORY / Asia / General, Politics & government, Historiography, Politics and government, Ancient History, Asian History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Early China; Historiography; Empires; Imperialism; Politics